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30-8-18
Dear Parents/Guardians
On behalf of the staff of Scoil Áine Naofa, we would like to welcome you all back for the new school year. We hope that you all had a lovely summer break and it was great to see the children back in school this morning. We would appreciate it if you could take the time to read the following points:
- Welcome to our new staff members. We have 3 new teachers, Ms Flynn, Ms O’Keeffe and Ms. Bowler. We also have a new SNA in our school, Emma Fitzhenry. We wish them all success in their new roles. I would also like to wish Mr. O’Sullivan success in his new role as Deputy Principal.
- All children should be in their line by 9am in the morning. In the event that your child is late, he/she must go to the main entrance and wait for a staff member to bring them in. For child protection reasons, you will be unable to open the main door from the outside without a key. Department policy outlines that teachers take the roll at 10am. If your child arrives after 10am, he/she will be marked absent.
- School staff welcome and encourage ongoing communication between school and home. Correct procedures, however, must be followed in line with child protection guidelines. Therefore, no unauthorised personnel can enter the school building without permission. All school visits must be arranged through the office. The Board of Management of Scoil Áine Naofa operate a zero tolerance policy in relation to child protection.
- We believe that communication is key to a successful school. In order to help us in this area, we will be using the Aladdin Connect app. Details in relation to this app are outlined overleaf. We would strongly recommend that you download this app to keep in touch with school news, events etc.
Wishing a happy and successful year ahead to pupils, families and staff.
Is muidne, le meas,
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Conor Reilly Andrew O’Sullivan
Principal Deputy Principal
Our school is delighted to announce that we will shortly roll out the Aladdin Schools Connect to parents/guardians of children in our classes.
Aladdin Connect is a fantastic way to enhance a school's communication with parents. It enables parents to stay connected and informed about their child's education by:
- Ensuring that the school has their most up to date contact information
- Keeping parents up to date on school and classroom news via noticeboard messages
- Allowing parents view their child's approved report card & standardised test results
Along with strengthening our home/school partnership, we also envisage Aladdin Connect helping the school by:
- Helping to improve attendance by allowing parents to keep track of any school days their child may have currently missed, along with late arrival and early leaving information. Parents/Guardians can input reasons for absence via the app.
- Helping to reduce the amount of class/school notes being sent home
- Reducing costs by eliminating the need to send school report cards by post
You can rest reassured that Aladdin Schools uses state-of-the-art security to safeguard information entered by the school and data is stored and processed in strict compliance with Irish and European data protection laws.
In the next few days, you will receive a text/email message containing your registration link. There will be one link per parent which will allow the parent to access information for all their children in the school from one user account. Please do not forward this text/email or share this link as this is a unique registration code for each parent for your child/children in this school. During registration you will choose a password that will be used in conjunction with your email address to securely access the Aladdin Connect going forward. Once you are registered you will be sent an email with links to download the Aladdin Connect App for your mobile device. The main advantage of using the App is to receive immediate alerts for app messages sent by your school.
By default both parents will have access to view their child’s contact information. If for any reason you do NOT wish to share your own personal contact information within the family circle or if you have any concerns regarding your particular family setup please contact the school in confidence to discuss or have this facility restricted.
In preparation for this please let the school know if your email address or phone number has changed recently.